Chekov's famous play, concerning the impossibility of maintaining the status quo, is streamlined quite nicely with the other major motif in Alex of Venice concerning Alex's eco-advocacy group and its battle to save a natural habitat and its resident tadpoles. (ioncinema.com)
Its fine - grained structuring that relies on repetitions, doublings, mirroring and minor variations on major motifs — reminiscent of the work of Korean filmmaker Hong Sang - soo — renders the film very robust. (theseventhart.info)
Any effort to describe, and especially to contrast, these ways of being evangelical will necessarily be subject to the sorts of criticisms often leveled at efforts to think «typologically» or to describe «ideal types»; namely, (1) that the emphasis on defining major motifs may over-accentuate differences, (2) that the resulting analysis may be somewhat abstract, (3) that historical illustrations of the types will generally be mixed and intermingled, and so on. (religion-online.org)